Today's Monday...So Let's Be Better than Yesterday's Best!!

Psalms 19:14 says...

"Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer."

I really need that script when dealing with my supervisor from Hades...her bangs cover up her horns...i'm almost positive!! lol

I will put forth an effort to not shut down, when she's spiteful, rude or condescending. I will be thankful for my job and not complain, in Jesus' name. Fam, what will u do today, on back2work Monday??

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My Co. Will Probably Implement this in 2018-...Maybe Your Co.'s Open-Minded...

Finding a Job Through Blogging
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A lot of people in Michigan are looking for jobs right now. Bill Spencer has a new way to find a job fast without knocking on doors or sending a single resume.

Debbie Weil (pic b'low)
Debbie Weil, author of The Corporate Blogging Book, tells you how to start your own corporate or organizational blog. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies and high-paid executives.

For more information visit Debbie Weil
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I could NOT IMAGINE getting paid corporate dollars to blog. I'm getting dizzy thinkin about it...but like I said, my co. will probably do this in 2018. They wait until EVERYBODY else do something and then jump on the bandwagon. PLEASE dont ask the co.'s name-I wouldn't be surprised if personnel is documenting my blog.
AND YES...they're scurvy like that.

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Fruitcake, and it's not even Xmas yet!

Guilty Verdict in Fetus Snatching Case
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Oct. 22) - A woman whose attorneys had argued that she was suffering from delusions when she killed an expectant mother, cut the baby from her womb and took the infant home was convicted Monday.

Jurors convicted Lisa Montgomery, 39, of kidnapping resulting in death in the 2004 attack on 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore.

Lisa Montgomery's attorneys claimed she was in a dreamlike state brought on by stress when she killed 9-months-pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and cut the baby from her womb. But a jury didn't buy the insanity defense.

The jury deliberated for about four hours before rejecting Montgomery's insanity defense. The jury could have acquitted her outright or found her not guilty by reason of insanity. Prosecutors said they plan to seek the death penalty.

After the verdict was read, Montgomery dried her eyes and one of her attorneys patted her back to console her.

Stinnett's husband, Zeb, and Montgomery's husband, Kevin, showed no emotion.

Defense attorneys claimed Montgomery was suffering from pseudocyesis, which causes a woman to falsely believe she is pregnant and exhibit outward signs of pregnancy.

They portrayed her as a victim of severe mental illness whose delusion of being pregnant was being threatened, causing her to enter a dreamlike state when the killing took place.

They also argued that she had post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by mental, physical and sexual abuse in her childhood.

But during closing arguments, federal prosecutor Roseann Ketchmark called the pseudocyesis claim "voodoo science."

She said Montgomery was driven by fear because she believed her ex-husband, Carl Boman, would expose that she was lying about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of two of the couple's four children. A custody hearing had been set for January 2005.

"It's not pseudocyesis or post-traumatic stress disorder," Ketchmark said. "And even if you wrap them up and put delusions around them, it's not insanity."

Ketchmark said Montgomery plotted the slaying and abduction and took pains to cover up that planning after she was caught.

"She knows she's not pregnant," the prosecutor said. "It's no delusion. It's deceit and manipulation."

Montgomery had undergone a tubal ligation in 1990 after the birth of her fourth child. But soon after, she began falsely reporting a series of pregnancies. In 2004, she claimed to be due in mid-December.

Boman had become suspicious of her latest pregnancy claim and threatened to use it against her as he sought custody of two of the couple's four children. A custody hearing had been set for January 2005.

Montgomery's mother and sister also had been telling Montgomery's husband and his parents that it was impossible for her to carry a child.

As Montgomery's purported Dec. 13, 2004, due date approached, she began conducting searches on the Internet about Stinnett and researching different aspects of child birth. The defense portrayed those efforts as evidence that she believed she was pregnant. The prosecution called them proof of premeditation.

Prosecutors said Montgomery used a rope to choke Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant. But Stinnett was conscious and trying to defend herself as Montgomery used a kitchen knife to cut the baby girl from the womb, prosecutors said.

Montgomery was arrested the day after the killing after spending the morning showing off the infant as her own in her hometown of Melvern, Kan.

Montgomery's attorneys and a spokesman for Stinnett's family declined to comment. Stinnett's baby is living with her family.

"The only good thing that comes from this tragedy is that little Victoria is a healthy baby and is reunited with her family," U.S. Attorney John F. Wood said.

After initially denying the crime, Montgomery told investigators she had taken a knife, rope and umbilical cord clamp with her to Stinnett's home. Montgomery said she had thought she was leaving the home when "something out of character" happened and "then this took place."

Attorneys are to start arguing Wednesday whether Montgomery deserves the death penalty.

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You see her mugshot??

What reason does she have to be frowned up?

She's still here.

A child has no mother.

Crazy my fo0t, who doesn't have childhood trauma?

The person who says they don't, would be the one to fear!

I say give her the same treatment she gave Bobbie Jo.

Life in prison is too easy--and i don't want to pay for her upkeep!

cutting a baby out of a womb?

yeahhh, she's crazy but she's not deranged.

I hope they stick it to her.

that girl was 23 years old...just starting to live.

*sigh*

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Fighting Depression on the Job
Illness affects black women more

--Mental health advocates are calling on the business community to confront depression among employees; not just in a bid to improve employees' lives but as a way to improve the business' bottom line. Unfortunately, depression disproportionately affects black women.

According to DepressionIsReal.org, depression among black women is almost 50% higher than it is among white women. And of black women suffering from depression, only 7% receive treatment. This is compared to 20% of white women. These statistics have community leaders urging African Americans who think they are depressed to seek help by contacting a mental health professional.

Last month, a panel discussion sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus and the Depression is Real Coalition, an alliance of mental health advocates, highlighted the impact of depression on African American women. Signs of depression include a significant change in one's mood over an extended period of time, typically for more than two weeks, says Altha J. Stewart, M.D., president of the American Psychiatric Foundation. Other signs are lack of energy, changes in appetite, withdrawal from social events, and changes in sleeping patterns.

Depression is a business problem because “employees that are depressed have a higher rate of absenteeism, and they have low productivity, so it indirectly costs corporations,” says Angie Burks, a lecturer with Indiana University-Bloomington’s Kelley School of Business who has done extensive research on the topic.Burks cites a 2006 study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry that found that a depressed worker costs employers $4,426 in indirect costs annually. "Companies encourage employees to get mammograms and get blood pressure tests but they don't encourage mental health screening," she says. "If they did it would save [businesses] a lot of money."
Another study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, looked at the effect of depression treatment. After screening workers for depression, researchers found that those who received enhanced therapy and medication to treat the depression were more likely to still be employed after 12 months and worked on average two more hours a week than those who did not receive more pronounced care for depression. "Depression is not just an emotional or personal health problem," says Philip Wang, M.D., one of the study researchers. "It also impacts people's productivity at work." While there's no shortage of statistics on depression's impact, many people don't seek treatment because of the stigma associated with it, says Stewart.

Though depression is a medical problem, it "is commonly seen as a weakness or character flaw and for some people for whom religion plays a major part in their lives, it's even attributed to a lack of faith or a lack of enough faith," says Stewart.

Employers are also recognizing depression's costs. According to a survey conducted by the Partnership for Workplace Mental Health and the human resources professional trade publication Employee Benefit News, employers rated mental illness as the health issue with the biggest effect on indirect company costs.The American Psychiatric Foundation regularly points out examples of companies that are proactive in helping employees deal with mental health issues in its newsletter Mental HealthWorks, co-published with the American Psychiatric Association. One such company, San Ramon, California-based Chevron Corp., includes in its benefits package a mental health/substance abuse plan that covers 90% of outpatient costs and offers access to therapists for such personal needs as relationship counseling.

Business leaders can play a major role in removing the stigma attached to depression and motivating depressed employees to seek help, Stewart says. "Given that most change of significance starts at the top, management has to be very clear with human resources and with supervisors that we must be proactive in both recognizing the signs of depression and ensuring that those who are suffering with depression have access to appropriate treatment."

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Ladies (and gentlemen), depression is real and it hurts.

In our community-it is a sign of weakness to admit or acknowledge depression.

It's the Pink Elephant in our living rooms.

TALK ABOUT IT, before it's too late.

My son, lost his friend Jamal earlier this year.

Jamal, HUNG HIMSELF at the age of 14 years of age.

Depression, if left untreated, can take you there, ok?

If you have a physical pain that doesn't go away, you seek treatment.

Emotional pain needs treatment as well.

This is literally your life...seek help.

And live.

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